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Title says it. Old Dell died, I had Office 2003 Professional from Dell, but on MS disks that appear to be retail type. New computer is running Windows 7 (64 bit). Install appeared normal with activation codes, program operations are OK with one or two unexplained shutdowns. Ive been running …

Hope someone may be able to help... I have always had a problem with the modem connection, if I pull out the lead to the broadband voyager modem, without cancelling the internet connection, the computer tends to freeze. My wife decided she wanted to use her computer and so pulled …

I am formatting my ibm desk top pentium 4 and when the first phace completes and it restarts the machine starts from the hard disk and tells me to press any to start from disc and when i press it starts the formatting again what can i do

Hello Friends, I used to use a registry cleaner called RegistrySmart, it seemed to do a good job in cleaning the registry and that was all it did, it was automatic you just pressed scan and that was it until I got an update from them which had a virus …

Hi, I have a problem with my sound on all programs for video (Youtube, DVD's, etc) Whatever program I use (WMP, real player, Win amp, quick time, etc) I can not get good volume levels. I have updated the drivers (Realtek) I have turned all controlls to max, ensured that …

Comp: HP Laptop OS: Windows xp Media Center I have the recovery on disk's (So can bring back to factory setting whenever.) There is a 12 Gig partition for recovery on HD, I have 32 gig left of HD space. Should I get rid of the partition and just hope …

I got a warning alert from my AVG anti virus software the other day. It listed some cookies that were in a directory that doesn't exist on my hard drive. None of the AVG option took care of the warnings and every time I boot my computer I get the …

Trying to share a folder on a Windows 7 machine with a Windows XP machine. Error message: folder is not accessible. Access is denied

Okay, I am running Windows XP, on a Dell Mini Laptop. Thing sucks for hardware, but that's beside the point. Okay, for the past week, I've been having issues with the laptop's memory. If I have a few windows open of any program, then close out, it seems to not …

I recently left my laptop on all day without touching it at a friends house, and when I came back to it, I could not click on any windows. So doing ctrl-shft-esc, I brough up the task manager, and the only way I could navigate through it was by keyboard, …

Hello Friends, I wonder if anybody has had a bad experience with SFS, I received a file in sfs but cannot open it because I need the SFS program to open it, first of all I downloaded a program from CNET but when I went to install it said there …

I have a computer downstairs with vista and MS office outlook. The computer upstairs has XP and outlook express. Don't know if that makes a difference, but here is the problem..... After I set up the outlook on the vista computer, I started to receive emails... but they are different. …

why is it the "edit, help and more" ms dos command wont work??? only the dir,cd,cd/,and changing the drive works........please help guys...tanx,

Every since I got a FF update yesterday (to 3.5.7) it seems to be crashing a lot. Anyone else experience this? [edit]64-bit Windows 7[/edit]

I've got a problem, I have a machine that is running [B]Win7-x32bit[/B] and it can see the machine running [B]Win7-x64bit[/B], [U]but[/U] the [B]Win7-x64[/B] machine [U]can't[/U] see the [B]Win7-x32[/B]. I've tried the trouble shooting within Windows7 etc, nothing fixes it, [I]any idea what is going on[/I] ?

Hi everyone, I've read a couple of posts and most seem to be similar to my problem but I still can't figure out how to do this... I have a new computer, Dell, and I quickly installed windows 7 ultimate on it. Shortly after I added my old HDD on …

I am having a problem opening folders with a double left click. When I do this now it opens my VLC media player and the folder doesn't show. If I right click on the folder, the first 6 items on the drop down menu are: Add to VLC media player's …

Last Night (12-30-09) My PC got a Blue Screen of Death and restarted. I got the First Blue Screen of death while watching Adultswim Video. When the Computer Restarted It got to the Windows Vista log-in screen and then Blue Screened a second time, but froze before it restarted. I …

This is a problem with some back-story so let me start there. I recently bought a Dell mini, which has functioned perfectly for what I needed it to do. Problem: I slipped on a patch of ice and dropped aforementioned mini, bouncing on its corners, down a nice long set …

My Recycle bin keeps on popping up while im using the internet and then becomes a nusence by keep flashing i think it might be a virus or something. Any Help????

yesterday i was surfing the web when a pop up came up and said downloading something, it had disabled the x in the corner and the task manager. I turned the computer off and it will now not get past the windows xp loading page, it just restarts the computer. …

I did a clean install of Windows 7 on my computer reinstalled my programs, etc. Now I have the problem of the OS locking up the computer. I feel like I am using Windows 9x with its blue screen of death. It happens randomly with no rhyme or reason, I …

1. My adult daughter’s Toshiba Satellite computer started acting strangely lately. At first only rarely, but finally almost every time it was used, it kept popping up a dialog box purporting to show “search results” even though none had been asked for. Closing the box merely brought up another one, …

Hello everyone. I am posting here as my last resort before throwing my laptop out that window I have been wanting to replace. I can not download ANYTHING. Thus far, I have no problem opening current files, but every time I try to download something I get the error message …

I installed firefox days ago, and sometimes web pages can't open via it, the network is ok, anyone knows how to fix it? Thanks!

Hello everyone, [b]Wondershare Photo Recovery[/b] is being giveaway now on [url]www.giveawayoftheday.com[/url] It is designed for users to get back deleted and lost photos from computer, camera memory card and other devices. The giveaway is for only [b]24 hours on December 29, 2009[/b]. Anyone who needs it shouldn't miss the chance. …

Ok so I bought a new computer the other day, old one was working fine just time for a new one. Anyways, unplugged old puter and put up new one. Wanted to get KVM switch to use both and be set since all the files are on the old computer. …

First of all unhide all the programs. if u have a broad band or dial up connection jst get off the Ethernet connection.then restart the computer and press F7.you got in safe mode and run the computer with network there you search where the unauthorized folder are there or not …

Hi, I was browsing the internet today (I was trying to download iTunes, I do not know if it had started to download) on my Dell Inspirion E1505 today and a blue screen came up saying "A problem has been detected and windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to …

I think we can safely say that Windows Vista was a flop. The only one that doesn't seem to know it is Microsoft. Or does it? This week at [url=http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/default.mspx]WinHEC[/url], the company introduced a series of capabilities in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7]Windows 7[/url] that it says will "make it easier for hardware partners …

If I go to: view -> arrange by -> current view -> customize current view -> other settings I can change the "row font" size for the current folder. If I have 100 folders and I want to change the font size for the messages in all of them, you …

H/W: Dell Inspiron 8600 with 1Gb RAM S/W: XP Media Centre Edition 2002, SP3 My laptop has been operating more slowly for quite a time, on boot-up & during operation. I do not use it for games or watching films (except the occasional YouTube clip). In the last week or …

Can you please help me? I keep receiving NUMEROUS IE pop ups while browsing in Firefox. I don't even know what to do. Thank you!

I always get this error message when I access my D: partition. It say Error in Window Explorer the program must be close. Send error. Quite annoying and I am afraid I might loose my data although I have done regular back up. Is there anything I can do to …

I recently bought a new laptop with Vista. My desktop runs on winxp. I want to hook up my laptop to the modem but it keeps asking for the disk, which there is none. I want to have my laptop upstairs and my desktop is downstairs. This will only be …

Hi, I want to create a DVD from .avi files. I already converted them into DVD format suitable for DVD-players and burn them onto disk, but the data is recorded only as sequence without menu, that's inconvenient. I need a tool to create subtitles so that it will be easy …

Hi there, Specs: Athlon 2400+, 256DDR, mobo MSI KT4AV, WDC 60gb hard drive I was recently infected by a program that put an icon called sexdial on my desktop. This seemed to cause an advert for a casino to pop up every 20 minutes or so (and still tried, but …

So, I've looked everwhere and gotten really frustrated... so i came here... and the search feature showed me a bunch of spam... so how do i throttle bandwith in server 2009? i have a 100mbps connection and i dont want someone coming along and dossing me/ getting files from my …

Good Morning, I recently had to reinstal Windows XP on my computer due to a virus which basically rendered my machine useless. All is now fine except that I can't get any sound. When looking in my Device Manager information it tells me that there is a problem with my …

Hi ra, Recently I downloaded Windows Server 2003 Ent. Edition from the microsoft website, and during installation it is giving me errors like bootvid.dll, kdcom.dll, c_1252.nls.... files are missing and couldn't install the operating system, could you please guide us what could have been the problem. I am trying to …

I had the Trojan:Win32FakeSpyPro virus, and my browser wasn't connecting to the Internet. I used MalwareBytes to remove it, but my browser still won't connect. I did a full scan yesterday and there are no viruses. I don't know what else to do.

winXP home sp1 i have one folder shared a comp across a home network, full read/write access across the network and from other user accounts. i once decided to make the folder private so other users could not see the files unless logged on as me. now i cant make …

Dear ALL, I have bought a PC COMPAQ CQ2000AN in New Zealand. That model does not provided the restore kit in CD formation. I know the restore kit which is installed into the harddrive but now the PC was not work and cannot go to the windows screen and DOS …

Does anyone know just what is happening with Microsoft Windows Mobile devices? It would appear that many users with Windows Mobile powered mobile phones have been getting SMS text messages dated 2016. The first reports came as folk started to receive Happy New Year messages from family and friends on …

Since I install Window 7 my IE is not working but my Firefox is working fine. Is there anyway I can get my IE working again or can I remove IE from my Windows?

Thanks for your services. I just got a Blue Screen Of Death on a 1 year old Dell Inspiron 530, running XP, SP2. Never had a problem before. Tonight, my wife started Left 4 Dead 2 and it went to blue screen and rebooted. I saw another thread here very …

Is anyone having this problem? I have a Toshiba Laptop and Vista is the O/S. I use it for home. I have a Realtek wireless network adapter. Linksys is the router. I am having trouble connecting to the internet. It was working fine for 5 months and then a couple …

[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Check for Disk Errors in Windows XP[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]The ScanDisk utility is not available in Windows XP. However, you can use the Error-Checking tool in Windows XP to check the integrity of your hard disk. [/size] …

I stopped a full or clean install of Windows XP on my Windows ME computer once I figured out it would probably want to format my disk and wipe out all the data I have on it. The setup routine would not give me an option to do an update, …

I have an incompatibility issue installing live mesh on vista business and Windows 7. I am told there is an upgrade for both, but cannot find from where to download it. Can someone tell me where do I find the upgrade and how do I install it. Thanks. Raya